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(1945 - 8 June 1948) ( his death)
1946 marries Victor A. Makzoume, Syria-born owner of Victor`s Cafe on Sunset Strip and ex of stage and screen actress Claire Alexander. He`s about 12 years her senior.
6 June 46
she and her husband, Makzoume, hit the news when reporting to the police that their Hollywood home was burglarized of jewelry and clothing valued at $15,000. She says the burglary apparently took place while she and her husband were away from home the last night. She lists as missing $1,000 in cash, a three carat diamond ring, numerous bottles of expensive perfume, other jewelry and clothing.
8 June 48
her husband dies at age 45 of a heart attack at the Grand Hotel in Rome, Italy. She is at his bedside. Makzoume was returning from a visit to his family in Lebanon.
Mid-June 48
columnist Dorothy Manners tells that "Helen Gilbert was set for a picture in Paris and a picture in Rome on her way to a movie comeback - just before the sudden death of her husband, Victor Makzoume, in Rome last week. She is so shaken and grief stricken she called off both contracts to bring his body back to this country."
30 July 48
is granted a family allowance of $650 a month from the $500,000 estate of her late husband in Los Angeles Superior Court. The court makes the award pending distribution of the estate, half of which is to go to Makzoume`s mother and sister, the rest to Helen.